Letter: NSA spying has chilling effect

The American people should be up in arms about our government spying on our email and phone records, putting drones in our skies and especially about their wanting Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, so badly. He deserves protection by our masses against our tyrannical government.

Obviously, they want Snowden because there are much greater abuses of the American's privacy rights that he may share if they can't get him into some dark prison cell very quickly.

But, what worries me is that our government is spending billions upon billions to spy on us Americans while leaving our borders wide open to enemies. Our government was told about the Boston bombers by Russia and had recently spent time with terrorists, but this rated nowhere near the priority of spying on us American citizens. Don't you think that if protecting us from our enemies is our government's greatest concern, that we would see them working hard to do that instead of spying on us?

This is scary, my friends. Let's say you get fed up with them and try to organize true opposition, even peacefully, let's say. Then, they find out of your threat to them and examine every person that you have had contact with in email or by phone for the last 10 years and bring in the IRS to harass them and Homeland Security to "scrutinize" them for "security" reasons. Isn't just that threat enough to scare most folks from joining such a group? Truly scary.